embryonic
adjective
Examples of embryonic in a Sentence
Riley Black, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
Working with chicken embryos, his research team identified the key players that are rhythmically expressed during the formation of each vertebral segment in embryonic tissue.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Within 48 hours, 76% of embryonic kidney cells died—about three times more than the percentage of cells that spent the same amount of time in a more diluted (less plastic-y) solution.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Sep. 2023
All three policy elements are at an embryonic stage, and more migrants could attempt to cross into the country in the coming months as the deadly summer heat at the border gives way to a cooler fall.
—Andrew Selee, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
Cloning from embryonic cells was already known to work; in 1995, Dr. Wilmut and his research partner, Keith Campbell, had swapped out the nuclei of two sheep embryos with those of two others, producing two identical ewes, Megan and Morag.
—Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
To test what these plastics do to our bodies once they’re consumed, the team bathed human embryonic kidney cells in the plastic roughage shed by the baby-food containers.
—WIRED, 31 July 2023
These stem cells—adult cells known as limbal stem cells, which are distinct from embryonic stem cells—maintain the clear surface layer of the eye; without them, the cornea becomes bumpy, opaque, and painful.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
An image depicting an embryonic dinosaur developing within an egg between 72 million and 66 million years ago won the Paleoecology category.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
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Word History
borrowed from New Latin embryonicus, from embryon-, embryo embryo + Latin -icus -ic entry 1
1740, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Embryonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embryonic. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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